131 N.C. App. 649 - Bailey v. Sears Roebuck & Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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40 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he Industrial Commission is the sole judge of the credibility of the witnesses and the weight to be given to their testimony. The Commission may accept or reject the testimony of a witness solely on the basis of whether it believes the witness or not.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pitillo v. N.C. Department of Environmental Health & Natural Resources · Pitillo v. NC DEPT. OF ENV. HEALTH

2. “substantial change in physical capacity to earn wages, occurring after a final award of compensation[.]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 159 N.C. App. 111 - Hunt v. North Carolina State University · 202 N.C. App. 147 - Bricker v. RHONEY FURNITURE HOUSE

3. “The Commission chooses what findings to make based on its consideration of the evidence[, and this] court is not at liberty to supplement the Commission's findings[.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pitillo v. NC DEPT. OF ENV. HEALTH